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Smart Consumption will enable demand response and lies at the interface between distribution management and
building automation.
Local Production is currently not a large component, however it is proposed as a future driver of Smart Grid
requirements.
Smart Homes are houses which are equipped with a home automation system that automate and enhance living. A
home automation system interconnects a variety of control products for lighting, shutters and blinds, HVAC,
appliances and other devices with a common network infrastructure to enable energy- efficient, economical and
reliable operation of homes with increased comfort.
Building Automation and Control System (BACS) is the brain of the building.
BACS includes the instrumentation, control and management technology for all building structures, plant, outdoor
facilities and other equipment capable of automation. BACS consists of all the products and services required for
automatic control including logic functions, controls, monitoring, optimization, operation, manual intervention and
management, for the energy-efficient, economical and reliable operation of buildings.
Bulk Generation
Smart Generation will include the increased use of power electronics in order to control harmonics, fault ride-through
and fluctuating generation from renewables as well as the required increased flexibility of conventional Fossil Power
Plants due to the increased fluctuation of feed from the renewables.
companies. They are independent from Operation, Control and Management Systems and supervise all activities and
assets/electrical equipments in a corresponding grid.
Therefore such systems can be used as early warning systems and are a must to analyze faults and to find out
the corresponding reasons.
The Energy Management System (EMS) is the control centre for the Transmission Grid. Today customers require
an open architecture to enable an easy IT integration and a better support to avoid blackouts (e.g. phasor
measurements, visualization of the grid status, dynamic network stability analysis).
In contrast to traditional protection devices, which protect the primary equipment (e.g. transformers) from fatal fault
currents, the Decision Support Systems and System Integrity Protection Schemes protect the power systems from
instabilities and black-outs. System Integrity Protection Schemes will enhance the target of protection devices, to
protect the primary equipment (e.g. transformers) from fatal fault currents in such a way that uncontrollable chain
reactions, initiated by protective actions, are avoided by limited load shedding actions.
Smart Meter
Smart Meter is a generic term for electronic meters with a communication link. Advanced Metering
Infrastructure (AMI) allows remote meter configuration, dynamic tariffs, power quality monitoring and load control.
Advanced systems integrate the metering infrastructure with distribution automation.
Communication
Communication as a whole is the backbone of Smart Grid. Only by exchanging information on a syntactic and
semantic level can the benefits of Smart Grid be achieved.
Security of a critical infrastructure has always been an issue.
However Smart Grid solutions will see an enormous increase in the exchange of data both for observability but also
for controllability. Therefore security of this data exchange and the physical components behind it will have an
increased impact.
Reference: IEC Smart Grid Standardization Roadmap; Prepared by SMB Smart Grid Strategic Group (SG3) June
2010; Edition 1.0